To Understand My Writing, Understand These Books (in no particular order)1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz2. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris3. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World, Margaret MacMillan and Richard Holbrooke4. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson5. Miles: An Autobiography, Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe6. Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, ed.7. Puerto Rican Obituary, Pedro Pietri8. Animal Farm, George Orwell9. Some of Us Did Not Die, June Jordan10. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos, Jack Agueros, ed.

Rich Villar is the author of the poetry collection Comprehending Forever (Willow Books, 2014). He directs Acentos, an organization fostering audiences and community around Latino/a literature, and he has been quoted on Latino literature and culture by The New York Times and the Daily News.

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Rich Villar is the author of the poetry collection Comprehending Forever (Willow Books, 2014). He directs Acentos, an organization fostering audiences and community around Latino/a literature, and he has been quoted on Latino literature and culture by The New York Times and the Daily News.